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stbalbach |
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January 05, 2013 09:43:10pm |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
The 'date' field for
Iroha-biki Monocho is set to "1800", see
the metadata file, so it won't return hits for 2012-2013. For searching on upload date use the 'addeddate' or 'publicdate' fields. Since that particular file has no 'createdate' field in the metadata, that search wouldn't return anything is correct.
The issue with Internet Archive is stuff is not consistently entered into the database, the data itself is spotty. So you have to search across multiple fields with "OR" between them to catch all possibilities. It's really very tricky when you get into it. I've written scripts to automatically create generic string strings that examine multiple fields, but the string string is limited to 256 chars in length (or so) thus run into hard limits with that strategy.
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stbalbach |
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January 06, 2013 01:13:44am |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
I think it's just a misspelling of 'Iroha'
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stbalbach |
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January 07, 2013 07:21:17am |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
>
http://archive.org/search.php?query=war%20gulf^4
The "^4" is odd, not sure what it means. Remove that and it works.
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http://archive.org/search.php?query=buttonwood~%20AND%20sort=-reviewdate"sort=" can only be used by manually adding it to the end of the URL with a "&". There is no way to sort using the search language, unfortunately.
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http://archive.org/search.php?query=downloads:[10000%20TO%20null]
This one appears to be have two problems: the "null" should "0" (zero), and it should be reverse order ie. "[0 TO 10000]".
> sort=-reviewdate
> why is a hyphen required in front of the ‘reviewdate’
The hyphen says reverse the sort order ie. from newest to oldest. Without the hyphen it would be oldest to newest. The hyphen can also work to exclude things from searches (very useful). So to exclude search from the opensource collection:
-collection:opensource
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aibek |
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January 07, 2013 06:44:19pm |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
Thanks!
So, the only documented features which do not work are the ‘war gulf^4’ and ‘downloads:[10000 TO null]’. (These terms are from the advancedsearch.php page.)
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aibek |
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January 06, 2013 03:20:14am |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
You are right. Thanks.
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philly_bob |
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January 06, 2013 08:16:46pm |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
Thanks for this discussion, folks. Helps me to get a handle on IA's search engine, which has been difficult for a non-Library Science guy like myself.
I've followed the search for the Iroha book, and I'm able to duplicate the search by fixing the Irohi/Iroha typo and entering the search into my browser bar:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=%28iroha%29%20AND%20addeddate%3A[2012-12-01%20TO%202013-01-05]
But I can't duplicate the search from the IA Advanced Search interface. I can call up the "AddedDate" field but the DateRange field only connects to the Date field. Do you have to type the [2012-12-01 TO 2013-01-05] in character-by-character?
Thanx.
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stbalbach |
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January 06, 2013 09:35:03pm |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
You are right the form uses the 'date' field with the date range option - to do a date range with other fields I don't think is possible using that form. I've always typed in searches by hand is more flexible, though it means learning the syntax, it's pretty powerful and works. IMO the advanced search is best for the part on the bottom, for creating CSV or HTML tables, which can be exported to other programs for whatever reason, typically for creating a mass download script.
Notice Internet Archive doesn't return an error "Your search syntax is messed up, try again" .. rather it says "Search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive. We are working to resolve this issue." .. confusing!
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aibek |
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January 07, 2013 04:17:20am |
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Re: Searching book on Chinese Lattice Designs |
philly_bob,
Also note that date ranges like ‘[2012-12 TO 2013-01]’ and ‘[2012 TO 2013]’ are valid.
It may be useful to collect some sample search strings, and print it. (a “cheatsheet”)
aibek
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